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No, and ...No, and ...Posted Jun 7, 2009 14:19 UTC (Sun) by malor (subscriber, #2973)In reply to: No, and ... by bojan Parent article: Donald Knuth: Mathematical Ideas, or Algorithms, Should Not Be Patented (Groklaw)
When thinking about algorithms and programs, the hardware is irrelevant. It's treated as an abstraction. A while(1) loop runs on both ARM and x86, on mainframes and on pocket calculators. In theory, it could probably run on some computational substrate of the Universe itself, a machine that couldn't fail, even in theory.
You're arguing about physical implementations OF algorithms, not algorithms themselves. In the context of this discussion, it's unimportant wankery.
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